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This “Twitter – What’s all the fuss about” post written by Beth Frysztak (@bethfrysztak) was originally published at Beth’s Blog:  Network Your Life, in April 2009.  Beth is a cool twitterer, charasmatic leader, successful marketer & Mom of 2 who thoroughly understands how to satisfy customers.  She is passionate about networking and “all things connected”.

Beth Frysztak

Twitter, is a micro-blogging service. It allows you to send short, 140 character “tweets” rather than typing an entire blog (as I am right now), You can “tweet” anything from getting coffee…to the days headline news. When Twitter was launched, I am sure there were only a handful of people who all followed each other! That soon became a hundred….then thousands. In fact, in the early stages of Twitter (in my humble opinion) the entire Twitter following was probably no more than the number of followers that I have today! (1,685 as of this afternoon (April 18, 2009) – in case you were wondering).

So, “What’s all the fuss about?”

What I receive out of Twitter-and my Twitter followers (whom I just adore!) is an unexplainable pleasure of “tweeting” the news of the day, a business article I have found, “re-tweeting” a fantastic quote or link and sharing stories of my life. Sometimes, my “tweets” are notions of nothing really important.

I hope that my followers appreciate my “tweets” as much as I appreciate theirs. It’s amazing and incredible that there are so many followers I have – and most I have never met face to face! If I learn something from someone each day – I am fulfilled.

I follow all kinds of peeps. I follow social media and marketing leaders (marketing is my business, so I have this insatiable need to read, read, and read more on any marketing topic!). I follow friends, to keep up with their daily coffee run, their frustration with work, their concern for “Twitter Addition” and their “run ins” with animal control. Some younger, some older and each and every one I have learned from

My followers all have their own “tweet style”. Some sit silently and read my tweets, some re-tweet my tweets if they have found it to be interesting, some send an @ reply or a DM saying – “Thank you so much!”, and of course, there is #followfriday when we can tweet out who we think that others should follow!

I wonder, as I sit and type this:

• “Are my followers enjoying me as much as I do them?”
• “Are my followers learning something from me each day?”
• “Have I put a smile on a follower face with a tweet today?”
• “Has someone Laughed Out Loud (LOL) at any of my tweets?”
• “Does anyone else ever think about this?”
• “Does any of this really matter?”

The answer is YES! If I had to choose the one thing that has made me a twitter-a-holic? Well, it is my followers of course! I am the lucky recipient of reading tweets of the “day in the life” of all those I follow! I learn from you and thank you!

“… knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.” (Albert Einstein)

To my Twitter family….I hope we never stop learning from one another.

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